11-letter words containing y, e, d, o
- pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- pendulosity — the state or quality of being pendulous
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- periodicity — the character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at regular intervals.
- phylloclade — a flattened stem or branch having the function of a leaf.
- pineal body — (formerly) the pineal gland.
- pioneer day — a legal holiday in Utah on July 24 to commemorate Brigham Young's founding of Salt Lake City in 1847.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- polypeptide — a chain of amino acids linked together by peptide bonds and having a molecular weight of up to about 10,000.
- polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
- pond hockey — ice hockey played on a frozen pond
- ponderingly — in a pondering manner
- ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
- possessedly — in a possessed manner
- pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- predicatory — of or relating to preaching.
- premorbidly — pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
- professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- providently — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- pseudoscopy — the use of a pseudoscope.
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- pteridology — the branch of botany dealing with ferns and related plants, as the horsetails and club mosses.
- pterodactyl — any of a number of genera of flying reptiles of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a highly reduced tail and teeth and a birdlike beak.
- purportedly — reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.
- puy de dôme — a mountain in central France. 4805 feet (1465 meters).
- puy-de-dome — a mountain in central France. 4805 feet (1465 meters).
- pyrrolidine — a colorless, water-soluble, unpleasant smelling, poisonous liquid, C 4 H 9 N, from which proline and certain alkaloids are derived, prepared by reducing pyrrole: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- quinhydrone — a dark green, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 1 2 H 1 0 O 4 , used in solution, together with a platinum wire, as an electrode (quinhy·drone elec·trode)
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- ready money — money that is in hand or may be obtained quickly or easily; cash.
- redhibitory — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- rediscovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
- rehydration — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
- repudiatory — the act of repudiating.
- review body — an organization sponsored by the government to make independent recommendations
- road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
- road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
- second city — Chicago, Ill.
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
- seed oyster — a very young oyster, especially one used in the cultivating and transplanting of an oyster bed.
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- skyrocketed — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- soldier fly — any of several flies of the family Stratiomyidae, characterized by brightly colored abdominal stripes.